Reliable, clean energy underpins almost everything else, health, education, small business income and household time. GEHESE works to close the gap between where clean energy is needed most and where it currently reaches.
Clean cooking technologies. We promote improved cookstoves and cleaner fuel alternatives that cut the smoke exposure responsible for serious respiratory illness in households that still rely on open fires or basic charcoal stoves.
Solar and biogas solutions. For households and small businesses without reliable grid access, we support solar and biogas systems sized to real, practical needs, lighting, phone charging, cooking, and small-scale productive use.
Waste-to-energy innovations. This pillar connects directly to our circular economy work: organic and agricultural waste is converted into usable energy rather than left to decompose or burn openly.
Women and youth clean energy entrepreneurship. We support women and young people building businesses around clean energy distribution, sales and maintenance, turning a household need into a livelihood.
Reducing indoor air pollution. Every intervention under this pillar is measured against a simple goal: fewer households breathing smoke inside their own homes every day.